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18, 2016, after an incident that injured passers-by Saturday night. . New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio walk towards the scene of an explosion on West 23rd street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Sunday, Sept.
Lawmakers' European trip shows holes in campaign law Gaping holes in state laws that allow lawmakers to use campaign money for investments Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: An investigation into expelled lawmaker Jeremy Durham's campaign finances revealed loopholes in state laws, including one that allowed a GOP donor to take six lawmakers on a European trip without anyone needing to report the gift.
Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Charlotte, NC., on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, to promote the Obama administration's record of supporting community colleges.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that the Roman Catholic Church may eventually change its opposition to gay marriage. Kaine is a devout Roman Catholic as well as a U.S. senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Nobel peace laureate known as the "saint of the gutters" during her lifetime, is proclaimed a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis. , expect by 1030/6.30 A.M., by Isla Binnie, 600 words) HONG KONG - Hong Kong votes in its first major election since pro-democracy protests in 2014 and one of its most contentious ever, with a push for independence among disaffected youth emerging as a major theme stoking tension with China's government.
Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon mocked Mitt Romney's five sons in 2012 for skipping military service and making time for Mormon missionary work, according to The Hill. "[They] have not served their country one day.
France's Interior minister has gathered leaders of the country's Muslim community, experts and lawmakers to mend relations between Islam and the French state undermined by the burkinis dispute. Bernard Cazeneuve, who also has government responsibility for maintaining good relations with religious denominations, told the La Croix newspaper ahead of Monday's meeting that he wants to create a foundation to help promote "an Islam of France" that respects French secular values.
Much has been made of Donald Trump's problems with a few voting groups - female voters, blacks and Hispanics, and young voters, in particular. And, to be sure, they are all problems.
"They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists," she claimed as part of her response to a question from "ABC World News Tonight" anchor David Muir about the GOP nominee's proposed Muslim ban. Multiple fact checkers rated her statement as false , and the Clinton campaign walked back her claim.
The problem is that many make a simplistic correlation between the ancient Israelite social law and the modern situation as if the Bible was addressing the same problem. Secularists and liberals, both political and religious, are typically loath to consult the Bible when it comes to matters of public policy.
The "Mormon Moment" has passed. I learned this from a book reviewer in The Christian Century , who criticized and dismissed a new book with a Mormon theme, and from a New York Times article which dated "the end of the Mormon Moment" before July, 2014.
Each Tuesday in July, The Dispatch will feature stories from young voters who will cast their first ballots for president this November, as well as those from veteran voters remembering their first time voting for president. The general election is set for Nov. 8. Jacob Craig registered to vote in spring 2015.
Hillary Clinton's running mate, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, has been described by critics as a snoozer of a choice who could fail to inspire the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party, blue collar workers and others. Instead, they describe a deep thinker with a light touch - a person who reads dense books on philosophy for fun but also jams on harmonica with any band that will let him play along.
For all the talk about 2016 being a wildly unusual election cycle, it's looking a whole lot like 2012. When it comes to how religious and non-religious voters appraise candidates, the prospective Clinton-Trump matchup resembles the Obama-Romney choice, the Pew Research Center found in a new poll, the results of which it announced Wednesday.
President Obama speaks at the General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Maryland in December 2011. Regardless of whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins November's election, the next president faces what looks to be a nearly impossible task when it comes to governing: Persuading the other side to compromise.
The leader of a polygamous Utah sect may have came up with a simple but slippery way to escape law enforcement late last month: olive oil. Lyle Jeffs, the leader of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was initially being held in jail after federal authorities arrested him and 10 other church leaders over a food-stamp-fraud case earlier this year.
Throwback Thursday: A look back in history on June 30, including Hong Kong reverting to Chinese rule, Diego Maradona caught doping and the NYC subway costing 10 cents. A Douglas Dauntless dive bomber noses over as the pilot miscalculates a landing on the deck of one of America's newest aircraft carriers, somewhere at sea, on June 30, 1943.
The funeral of Muhammad Ali , attended by a throng of 20,000, was the first national funeral for a national hero of the United States that was also a Muslim ceremony or janazah . Muhammad Ali crafted it as a interfaith event, but obviously Islam was central.
It has been four years since Roseanne "Bob" Barr, star of the old sitcom Roseanne , ran for president as the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party. Her running mate was Cindy Sheehan, and they got 67,477 votes .
The church is closing after a nearly 12-year, around-the-clock vigil by parishioners who had tried to keep their beloved house of worship open. In 2004, when low attendance forced the St. Frances church in Boston to close, more than 100 parishioners started taking shifts occupying the pre... Named after the first Italian-American saint, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church has sat near the shore of Scituate, Massachusetts since the 1960s.